Dan Patrick (9:50)
What? Stat of the day, by the way, according to DraftKings this morning, the odds to win the offensive rookie is the year. It's still Jaden Daniels by a good margin. Then it's Bo Nicks and then Brock Bowers, the tight end for the Raiders. You have to go out of your way to watch the Raiders, but when you watch, you can't miss Brock Bowers, can't miss him. But Bo Nicks played well, you know, not great, but played well. Opportunistic. But if you go back to last year, Sean Payton gets there. He's the savior. Then all of a sudden, all right, you got Russell Wilson, where they clearly didn't get along, or Sean clearly didn't want him to be his quarterback. And Russ played okay, but, you know, the writing was on the wall. Sean Payton wanted to get his quote quarterback, and he got him in Bo Nicks. So you send Russ away, take a huge cap hit, and he goes to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh gets him for a bargain, and now they're leading their division. Broncos could be going to the playoffs. So both teams won. Now, granted, it was an expensive decision for the Broncos, but they got their guy, Bo Nix on a rookie quarterback. Now, Pittsburgh is going to have to decide how much is Russell Wilson worth after this season. Now, I still maintain. Let's play this out. Let's see what you do when you get to the postseason. Are you one and done? Do you make a run here? And that might over, inflate, underinflate Russell Wilson's value in the off season. You still have Justin Fields. Are you going to keep. I mean, they were kind of in quarterback purgatory before they had Russ, before they had Justin Fields. And so they had to make a decision here. Can we get somebody who's threatening down the field? And Russ has been threatening down the field. He's played well coming back from the injury. But it feels like both of these teams benefited in the off season with big decisions. Now, Pittsburgh's wasn't a big decision, but I mean, Kenny Pickett, he. He was not threatening. And if you're going to throw for less than 15 touchdowns in today's NFL, you better have a great, great, great ground game there and a great defense. And normally they have a good running game and they have a really good defense there, but they could move on. Now, all of a sudden you get somebody who is going to make the defense at least aware that you can throw the ball down the field. So Pittsburgh ends up benefiting from this, and Denver certainly has with Sean Payton, because Sean Payton's rolling the dice. You're getting paid $18 million a year and you're going to get rid of somebody who's going to cost you, what, 50, 60, $70 million when it's all said and done. And you're going to get Bo Nix, who was the last of all the quarterbacks drafted. So you get the rookie deal, but he better be your rookie, he better be your quarterback because you didn't get Caleb, you didn't get Jaden, even JJ McCarthy, we're not sure how good he is. Drake May, they had to take the leftovers there. And Bo Nicks. But see, Bo nicks is what, 24? And he's been at Auburn, playing in the SEC. He was at Oregon. You're playing in the PAC 12. And at that age with that experience with two different franchises and you're getting paid while you're in college. So the transition where I disagree with Tom Brady is a little bit easier. That's still difficult. But you have him able to make the transition. Jaden Daniels making the transition. Caleb Williams has played pretty well. Drake may only played at North Carolina, but he's probably 23, 24. You're getting these guys now, Bryce Young and Anthony Richardson. They're still younger than these quarterbacks. They're going to be younger than the quarterbacks that are taken. Shador Sanders, they're younger than Shador Sanders. They're still trying to get that the reps there learn the game. That's why when they sat down they got a chance to learn a little bit and they played pretty well. But when you got 50 starts or more in college, you're able to have that experience of being in tough situations here. Bryce Young wasn't in a tough situation in Alabama. You're playing in Alabama. Anthony Richardson didn't play enough at Florida. Now we're going to find out just how good they are maybe the next, you know, five weeks here. But I'm glad that these two franchise remember Bryce Young was reportedly maybe available or teams were inquiring about him at the trade deadline. Anthony Richardson getting benched for Joe Flacco. So you have these situations. And so when I see Bo Nicks, I don't see a rookie quarterback. I well I see an experienced first year quarterback because when you say rookie it has usually a negative connotation. But he has poise, he hangs in there, he's tough and he's fortunate that he has Sean Payton. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live at Lowes.
